Ruth 2:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So she gathered grain in the field until evening. When she threshed what she had gathered, it came to about thirty pounds of barley!

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 16:36 : 36 (Now an omer is one tenth of an ephah.)
  • Prov 31:27 : 27 Watching over the ways of her household, she would not eat the bread of idleness.
  • Ezek 45:11-12 : 11 The dry and liquid measures will be the same, the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure. 12 The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels will be a mina for you.

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  • Ruth 2:18-23
    6 verses
    88%

    18Ruth Returns to Naomi She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much grain she had gathered. Then Ruth gave her the roasted grain she had saved from mealtime.

    19Her mother-in-law asked her,“Where did you gather grain today? Where did you work? May the one who took notice of you be rewarded!” So Ruth told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked. She said,“The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

    20Naomi said to her daughter-in-law,“May he be rewarded by the LORD because he has shown loyalty to the living on behalf of the dead!” Then Naomi said to her,“This man is a close relative of ours; he is our guardian.”

    21Ruth the Moabite replied,“He even told me,‘You may go along beside my servants until they have finished gathering all my harvest!’”

    22Naomi then said to her daughter-in-law Ruth,“It is good, my daughter, that you should go out to work with his female servants. That way you will not be harmed, which could happen in another field.”

    23So Ruth worked beside Boaz’s female servants, gathering grain until the end of the barley harvest as well as the wheat harvest. After that she stayed home with her mother-in-law.

  • Ruth 2:1-11
    11 verses
    82%

    1Ruth Works in the Field of Boaz Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side of the family named Boaz. He was a wealthy, prominent man from the clan of Elimelech.

    2One day Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi,“Let me go to the fields so I can gather grain behind whoever permits me to do so.” Naomi replied,“You may go, my daughter.”

    3So Ruth went and gathered grain in the fields behind the harvesters. Now she just happened to end up in the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.

    4Boaz and Ruth Meet Now at that very moment, Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters,“May the LORD be with you!” They replied,“May the LORD bless you!”

    5Boaz asked his servant in charge of the harvesters,“To whom does this young woman belong?”

    6The servant in charge of the harvesters replied,“She’s the young Moabite woman who came back with Naomi from the region of Moab.

    7She asked,‘May I follow the harvesters and gather grain among the bundles?’ Since she arrived she has been working hard from this morning until now– except for sitting in the resting hut a short time.”

    8So Boaz said to Ruth,“Listen carefully, my dear! Do not leave to gather grain in another field. You need not go beyond the limits of this field. You may go along beside my female workers.

    9Take note of the field where the men are harvesting and follow behind with the female workers. I will tell the men to leave you alone. When you are thirsty, you may go to the water jars and drink some of the water the servants draw.”

    10Ruth knelt before him with her forehead to the ground and said to him,“Why are you so kind and so attentive to me, even though I am a foreigner?”

    11Boaz replied to her,“I have been given a full report of all that you have done for your mother-in-law following the death of your husband– how you left your father and your mother, as well as your homeland, and came to live among people you did not know previously.

  • Ruth 3:14-18
    5 verses
    82%

    14So she slept beside him until morning. She woke up while it was still dark. Boaz thought,“No one must know that a woman visited the threshing floor.”

    15Then he said,“Hold out the shawl you are wearing and grip it tightly.” As she held it tightly, he measured out about sixty pounds of barley into the shawl and put it on her shoulders. Then he went into town,

    16and she returned to her mother-in-law. Ruth Returns to NaomiWhen Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked,“How did things turn out for you, my daughter?” Ruth told her about all the man had done for her.

    17She said,“He gave me these sixty pounds of barley, for he said to me,‘Do not go to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”

    18Then Naomi said,“Stay put, my daughter, until you know how the matter turns out. For the man will not rest until he has taken care of the matter today.”

  • Ruth 2:13-16
    4 verses
    82%

    13She said,“You really are being kind to me, sir, for you have reassured and encouraged me, your servant, even though I will never be like one of your servants!”

    14Later during the mealtime Boaz said to her,“Come here and have some food! Dip your bread in the vinegar!” So she sat down beside the harvesters. Then he handed her some roasted grain. She ate until she was full and saved the rest.

    15When she got up to gather grain, Boaz told his male servants,“Let her gather grain even among the bundles! Don’t chase her off!

    16Make sure you pull out ears of grain for her and drop them so she can gather them up. Don’t tell her not to!”

  • Ruth 3:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1Naomi Instructs Ruth At that time, Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her,“My daughter, I must find a home for you so you will be secure.

    2Now Boaz, with whose female servants you worked, is our close relative. Look, tonight he is winnowing barley at the threshing floor.

    3So bathe yourself, rub on some perfumed oil, and get dressed up. Then go down to the threshing floor. But don’t let the man know you’re there until he finishes his meal.

  • Ruth 1:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21I left here full, but the LORD has caused me to return empty-handed. Why do you call me‘Naomi,’ seeing that the LORD has opposed me, and the Sovereign One has caused me to suffer?”

    22So Naomi returned, accompanied by her Moabite daughter-in-law Ruth, who came back with her from the region of Moab.(Now they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.)

  • Ruth 1:5-7
    3 verses
    74%

    5Then Naomi’s two sons, Mahlon and Kilion, also died. So the woman was left all alone– bereaved of her two children as well as her husband!

    6So she decided to return home from the region of Moab, accompanied by her daughters-in-law, because while she was living in Moab she had heard that the LORD had shown concern for his people, reversing the famine by providing abundant crops.

    7Ruth Returns with Naomi Now as she and her two daughters-in-law began to leave the place where she had been living to return to the land of Judah,

  • Ruth 3:5-7
    3 verses
    74%

    5Ruth replied to Naomi,“I will do everything you have told me to do.”

    6Ruth Visits Boaz So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her to do.

    7When Boaz had finished his meal and was feeling satisfied, he lay down to sleep at the far end of the grain heap. Then Ruth crept up quietly, uncovered his legs, and lay down beside him.

  • Isa 17:5
    69%

    5It will be as when one gathers the grain harvest, and his hand gleans the ear of grain. It will be like one gathering the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

  • 1 Kgs 17:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11As she went to get it, he called out to her,“Please bring me a piece of bread.”

    12She said,“As certainly as the LORD your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.”

  • Lev 19:9
    68%

    9Leaving the Gleanings“‘When you gather in the harvest of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest.

  • 2 Kgs 7:16
    68%

    16Then the people went out and looted the Syrian camp. A seah of finely milled flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, just as in the LORD’s message.

  • 2 Kgs 4:18
    67%

    18The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.

  • Ruth 1:13
    67%

    13surely you would not want to wait until they were old enough to marry! Surely you would not remain unmarried all that time! No, my daughters, you must not return with me. For my intense suffering is too much for you to bear. For the LORD is afflicting me!”

  • Ruth 1:18
    67%

    18When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to dissuade her.

  • Josh 2:6
    67%

    6(Now she had taken them up to the roof and had hidden them in the stalks of flax she had spread out on the roof.)

  • Ruth 1:9
    67%

    9May the LORD enable each of you to find security in the home of a new husband!” Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept loudly.

  • Exod 9:31
    67%

    31(Now the flax and the barley were struck by the hail, for the barley had ripened and the flax was in bud.

  • Hos 3:2
    66%

    2So I paid fifteen shekels of silver and about seven bushels of barley to purchase her.

  • Ps 129:7
    66%

    7which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!